Quotes with legislation

  • Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
  • We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
  • Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

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  • Barack Obama A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bill Haslam Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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  • Arthur Bryant Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Caitlin Moran Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carol Bellamy For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Barney Frank For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • George F. Will I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alice Hamilton Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Milton Friedman Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Carter Heyward It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
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  • Roland Barthes Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Johnson Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Cass Sunstein Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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